When comparing typora vs TiddlyWiki, the Slant community recommends TiddlyWiki for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform note taking app?”TiddlyWiki is ranked 6th while typora is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose TiddlyWiki is:

No commercial interests, no ads, no registration, no nonsense. You own your notes 100%.

Pros

Pro

Hybrid interface

The editor and preview dual-pane setup typical of desktop Markdown editors are gone; instead, a singular interface makes for a WYSIWYG experience. This streamlines the workflow and encourages direct manipulation.

Pro

Live preview

Typora immediately renders what's typed on the screen in Markdown format. This helps users to have a better understanding of how their document is being formatted.

Pro

Support for LaTeX expressions

It supports LaTeX expressions, with an easy-to-use MaxJax panel.

Pro

Custom theme support

Typora has clean yet beautiful built-in themes and allows for users to create new themes using CSS.

Pro

Syntax highlight for fenced codes

It supports GFM's code fences, with syntax highlight support for C/C++, java, etc.

Pro

Support for tables

It supports tables for Markdown Extra. And also provides a GUI to make it easy to insert and edit them.

Pro

Inline images

It won't display image like ![alt](http://image-url), But shows the image content inside the editor.

Pro

Free during beta

Pro

Shows table of contents for the document

It supports an outline for the document, by showing a table of contents on the left side of the screen.

Make charts and diagrams with Mermaid, FlowChart and Sequence

Pro

Cross-platform

Pro

Syncs with iCloud

Pro

Free and Open Source

No commercial interests, no ads, no registration, no nonsense. You own your notes 100%.

Pro

Lots of plugins

Pro

Extremely customizable

This is a major aim and point with TiddlyWiki; people can relatively easily modify it to fit their particular application needs.

Pro

Self-hosted and indefinitely accessible

All content is stored within the same html file as the interface.

Pro

Single html file

It's a single file and all your notes will be "accessible even in 25 years" because they can be seen in plain html text.

Pro

10+ years mature

Mature software, active community with members from all over the world.

Pro

Relational links

Allows for relational links and lists between notes to keep things organized.

Pro

Progressive user level, from ease of use to programming your own plugins

Basic users can start with simple note-taking, progressively discover predefined features and existing plugins, then start using more fancy features (like filters, widgets, macros), in order to adapt their wiki to their needs.

Pro

Multiple, user-defined usages

The list of possible usages is practically infinite in TW, and more importantly it lets the user define their own method of dealing with their content.

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Cons

Con

In beta

Typora is still in beta and may be prone to changes or bugs.

Con

The immediate rendering of Markdown is hard on the eyes

Having Markdown immediately render causes text to jump into formatted text, which is distracting and hard on the eyes.

Con

Without JavaScript nothing is visible

Con

Relies on browser performance, online or offline

TiddlyWiki is a single HTML file. Thus, if you directly embed e. g large images or videos in it (instead of using the features to display externally stored images and videos) it would make the file big and performance slow.

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